“Weissman and his charges claimed they “accidentally” wiped their phones by entering “incorrect passcodes,” a claim so lame that even the mentally declining Robert Mueller himself would be able to see through it.”
However much you hate the people involved, facts still matter.
iPhones can be configured to “brick” (rendering the device unusable and contents inaccessible) after 10 failed passcode entry attempts.
Investigators are frequently incompetent when attempting to breach smartphone security. No surprise if someone was tasked with “try every possible code on this set of phones” and, being a good bureaucrat, he did so - wiping every phone. Of course it also could be deliberate.
And bricking a phone doesn’t matter.
the information is still stored at the carrier...
The rest of us security and telecom experts are supposed to Snowd-en by their latest revelation?
“Watch this hand...”